Recent content by Jezza

I don't know, I have personally hydrolocked two engines in the past that both resulted in replacement. In my experience if an engine locks while running there is almost always internal damage of some sort. Both times I was on city streets and not crossing some large river. I wish I would...

Probably? I can honestly say I know nothing when it comes to modern diesels. Hp Tuners has support for the E46 PCM, but little to no additional information. It is 6 credits and the PCM has to go to them to be unlocked which is another $400 iirc.

That's a problem far far off in the distance. The odds of getting the Duramax running and able to work in the Wrangler are far from good. I can't even connect to the ECM right now as it doesn't have direct communication to the data link connector. So my first list of parts so far are: Serial...

I didn't even pay that much for this one.

I'm working on that. I have some experience in that area. I need to order a few things to get started so in the meantime it's going in storage.

These are about 30# lighter than a 4.0. They also make 300hp and 500 ftl/lb, and in the trucks fuel mileage is in the mid 20s.

Yep the inline 6 Duramax

A possible future project. I picked it up cheap, presumably because no one has been able to swap one yet. I have no plans to do anything with it anytime soon, except to maybe get it running on the stand.

Engine was stock internally. It also had over 200k miles on it. The only other mod was a catback pipe. Boost calculators are BS. 20psi on a little T25 is much different on a GT4202 or a PT118. Banks doesn't care. From what I understand they were having a difficult time getting turbos...

I did the dyno tests. You're right the boost spiked close to 7 and then stabilized at 6.5. I call it 6, you say 7 🤷‍♂️.

Dyno sheets and videos if you feel the need. Banks used an old school now outdated turbo for their kit. The newer stuff is much more efficient and has almost no lag.

I was basing it off of what I know and the data I have which is wheel HP. The stock setup is around 150 wheel and 6 psi on a bone stock engine made 250. So, roughly 70%.

100hp gain on a 4.0 is 70% more power. Hardly a waste of time IMO.

Yes, the kit comes with a new top lid, but retains the lower box and factory filter. We did some crude testing when we were dyno testing the kit. We removed the elbow between the turbo and airbox to see if it would make a difference in power. It did not change the power in our test.

My honest review of the factory airbox. It is not a suitable replacement for traction boards.